On 1/31/16 3:30 PM, Bryan Pendleton wrote:
On 1/30/2016 2:03 PM, Bryan Pendleton wrote:
The Derby download pages, such as
http://db.apache.org/derby/releases/release-10.11.1.1.html
and
http://db.apache.org/derby/releases/release-10.12.1.1.html
are acting funny for me; they aren't picking a mirror download
site properly, and are showing:
You are currently using [preferred].
It looks like part of the problem is that there are two sets of
download pages for the 10.11 and 10.12 releases:
http://db.apache.org/derby/releases/release-10.11.1.1.html
http://db.apache.org/derby/releases/release-10.12.1.1.html
and
http://db.apache.org/derby/releases/release-10.11.1.1.cgi
http://db.apache.org/derby/releases/release-10.12.1.1.cgi
The ".cgi" pages are generating valid download links; the ".html"
pages are not.
I got to these ".html" pages for the recent releases by looking at
http://db.apache.org/derby/releases/
It looks like we have some cleanup work to do on our release
distribution pages on the site; the Apache Infrastructure team have
filed a couple of other issues that they noticed while trying to
help me resolve this problem.
Rick, do you know your way around this infrastructure well enough
to help me with these tasks?
thanks,
bryan
Hi Bryan,
The mirrored (most current) releases always have two files governing them:
1) An html file which you DON'T click on. The html file contains that
weird [preferred] verbiage which is part of the magic which actually
indirects you to the mirroring sites.
2) A cgi file. That's what you DO click on. The cgi file and the html
file cooperate with one another in order to effect the mirroring. I
don't understand this stuff. It just works.
When a release is transferred from the mirrors to the archives, then the
release manager has to remove the cgi file and update the html file,
removing the [preferred] verbiage and replacing it with hardcoded links
to the archive locations.
The mirroring looks to me as though it's working correctly right now.
Modulo my ignorance about cgi, does that help?
Thanks,
-Rick
